When I was a kid in Maryland, we used to go to this place called The Enchanted Forest. It was in Ellicott City I think.I went back when I was in college to see it again, and it was fully abandoned. The front entrance, which was a castle was now part of a Safeway.The entire park was still behind the shopping center, abandoned and overgrown. Super creepy.

We came back a month later and had a big Airsoft battle there.It was epic; hiding in teacups, and on top of Cinderella's castle.

I heard it's finally gone now, but I haven't been back to see for myself.

went to berlin 14 1/2 years ago...but we didn't go to this park...of course, we were just there to party in the streets for the millennium new year, and we did do that quite well...with excursions to the wall, beate uhse erotik museum, etc...but if i'd known about hitler car ride, heck yeah we would've visited the park!

WhiskeyBoy:When I was a kid in Maryland, we used to go to this place called The Enchanted Forest. It was in Ellicott City I think.I went back when I was in college to see it again, and it was fully abandoned. The front entrance, which was a castle was now part of a Safeway.The entire park was still behind the shopping center, abandoned and overgrown. Super creepy.

We came back a month later and had a big Airsoft battle there.It was epic; hiding in teacups, and on top of Cinderella's castle.

I heard it's finally gone now, but I haven't been back to see for myself.

WhiskeyBoy:When I was a kid in Maryland, we used to go to this place called The Enchanted Forest. It was in Ellicott City I think.I went back when I was in college to see it again, and it was fully abandoned. The front entrance, which was a castle was now part of a Safeway.The entire park was still behind the shopping center, abandoned and overgrown. Super creepy.

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We came back a month later and had a big Airsoft battle there.It was epic; hiding in teacups, and on top of Cinderella's castle.

I heard it's finally gone now, but I haven't been back to see for myself.

Yep, I used to go there as a kid. Never liked it. The "rides" were lame and there was too much fantasy/fairy themed stuff for a 4 year old boy. The summer carnival circuit was always more fun with better food, better rides & tons of freakshow carnies to gawk at.

Slayinit:WhiskeyBoy: When I was a kid in Maryland, we used to go to this place called The Enchanted Forest. It was in Ellicott City I think.I went back when I was in college to see it again, and it was fully abandoned. The front entrance, which was a castle was now part of a Safeway.The entire park was still behind the shopping center, abandoned and overgrown. Super creepy.

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We came back a month later and had a big Airsoft battle there.It was epic; hiding in teacups, and on top of Cinderella's castle.

I heard it's finally gone now, but I haven't been back to see for myself.

Yep, I used to go there as a kid. Never liked it. The "rides" were lame and there was too much fantasy/fairy themed stuff for a 4 year old boy. The summer carnival circuit was always more fun with better food, better rides & tons of freakshow carnies to gawk at.

I remember the Enchanted Forest, they used to have commercials on TV all the time growing up. Every now and then it is the news because some historical group wants to clean it up and open it again. They start clearing brush and thats about it.

I was thinking that it was from Hanna too, glad we got that covered. I just thought what a waste for those video games istead of letting them rot or trashing them somebody coulda made a few 100 bucks off of each. That hockey table would have been fun to have.

Amazed at how well the teacups ride held up, the paint still looks fresh. The tent above it hasn't ripped yet and let rain in, maybe that's why.

Hope when the town takes over they try to save/reincorporate a few things into whatever they plan for the area. That Wildcat roller coaster tunnel entrance is salvageable, so are some of the dinosaurs, the swan boat would make a nice planter. And maybe sell a few things to the public, like selling memento seats from an old stadium, to raise money--individual roller coaster cars or log flume boats. People will buy all kinds of weird stuff for mementos.

In this case the park wasn't in an open field, but within a forested nature conservation area (peninsula-ish) in a bent of the river Spree, so the park was pretty green to begin with.I read somewhere that this was/is one of the problems with the property:not much parking space and where the areal doesn't border the river, there's protected forest which you aren't allowed to clear for a parking lot, so the park wasn't comfortably accessible by car which probably affected visitor numbers.